It seems that everything Michael Jackson
touches still turns to gold. The rights to
the comedy song Do The Bartman, which
the star wrote for an episode of The
Simpsons, recently sold for $38,000.
Simpsons boss Matt Groening said back in
1998, “It has always been amazing to me
that no-one ever found out that Michael
Jackson wrote that song.” In other news,
Jackson’s sound engineer Michael Durham
Prince claims he has 20 unfi nished tracks
by the late pop star on his computer, but
can’t let anyone hear them due to an
agreement with Sony.

Prince has released his latest
album HITNRUN exclusively via
Jay Z’s Tidal streaming service. “After one meeting, it was
obvious that Jay Z and the
team at TIDAL recognise and
applaud the effort that real
musicians put in2 their craft
2 achieve the very best they
can at this pivotal time in the
music industry,” said Prince in
a statement. “Secondly, TIDAL
have honoured Us with a nonrestrictive
arrangement that once
again allows Us to continue
making art in the fashion we’ve
grown accustomed 2 and
We’re Extremely grateful 4 their
generous support.” His all-girl
backing band 3RDEYEGIRL
seemed pretty excited by the
new music: “Super hardcore
Prince fans that know every song
he’s ever recorded – we refer
to them as The Purple Collective
or The Purple Army – and this
album is absolutely for them,
because it’s super funky.”

Kylie Minogue has added her musical talents to Terry Gilliam’s fi rst
directorial project in two decades, contributing a brand new track entitled
Absolutely Anything to the Monty Python man’s sci-fi comedy of the
same name. The movie stars Simon Pegg and Kate Beckinsale alongside
Sanjeev Bhaskar, Eddie Izzard and Joanna Lumley, and concerns a group
of aliens who confer the power to do absolutely anything upon a human being. It
also features the vocal talents of Robin Williams in his last-ever role, plus the entire
Python team – Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam, John Cleese, and Eric Idle.
The project is a dream come true for fan-girl Kylie. “Growing up in Australia,
Monty Python thrilled, baffl ed and entertained my entire family,” she says. “I’m such
a fan, so to record the theme song was a great honour.” The feeling is mutual: “I
was thrilled Kylie recorded the fi lm’s end title song,” adds Gilliam. “She’s not as
small as everyone says she is.” Oh, yes she is…